Website got flagged, quick question

Sorry if it's a dumb question. My site got flagged, if I switch the domain, ie mysite.com to mysite.net and don't change where it's being hosted, will it still be flagged or can I restart with .net?

Google has detected a pattern of artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site. Buying links or participating in link schemes in order to manipulate PageRank are violations of Google's Webmaster Guidelines.As a result, Google has applied a manual spam action to mysite.com/. There may be other actions on your site or parts of your site.

Can I just keep the site the same but as .net or do I have to start over?

Google has detected a pattern of artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site. Buying links or participating in link schemes in order to manipulate PageRank are violations of Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
As a result, Google has applied a manual spam action to mysite.com/. There may be other actions on your site or parts of your site.

No, it's very likely that Google will recognize this, think you forgot to do a 301 redirect and pass all of the site's good and bad signals to your new site. I recently heard this come right out of John Muellers voice (Google Guy) on a webinar/Q&A he did.

No, it's very likely that Google will recognize this, think you forgot to do a 301 redirect and pass all of the site's good and bad signals to your new site. I recently heard this come right out of John Muellers voice (Google Guy) on a webinar/Q&A he did.

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Not sure what you mean. What does 301 redirect have to do with anything, isn't that just the moved permanantly redirect? I wouldn't want any of my old links because they're unnatural, right?

What if I change the wording of the content and the design and switch to .net? Would that be alright? We have a pretty big forum presence so rebranding would hurt a lot.

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Rewriting your content can help you avoid any mobile penalties (penalties that can be transferred) on the new domain. I recommend changing your web host to avoid leaving footprints that might link the penalized site to the new one.

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